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Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) affects up to 1 in 20 people, and is particularly prevalent among young people in the adoption and fostering system. As a hidden brain injury, FASD can manifest in ways that often lead to challenging behaviors, which can feel overwhelming for caregivers relying on traditional parenting strategies. In this supportive guide, Barb Clark shares her experiences raising a child with FASD - what she got wrong, what she got right, and what you can do to support your own family.

At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name, he survived alone for weeks on the rough streets of Calcutta before ultimately being transferred to an agency and adopted by a couple in Australia. Despite his gratitude, Brierley always wondered about his origins.

Maggie’s story begins in suburban New Jersey, in a comfortable middle-class family that supports her decision to travel the world during a gap year before starting college. During her travels, the trajectory of her life alters when she has a surprise encounter with a Nepali girl breaking rocks in a quarry. Maggie decides to invest her life savings of five thousand dollars to buy a piece of land and open a children’s home in Nepal.

From one of the world's leading experts, an absorbing narrative history of the changing structure of modern families, showing how children can flourish in any kind of loving home.

Adoptiert zu sein ist nicht immer leicht. Oft ist das Leben voller Schwierigkeiten und Herausforderungen, für die es keine nachhaltigen Lösungen zu geben scheint. Adoption ist Not und Tugend zugleich, wenn man bereit ist, den tieferen Sinn dahinter zu erkennen. Ist es nicht ein erstrebenswertes Ziel, emotional frei von seiner Geschichte zu werden, mit der Vergangenheit einen friedvollen Umgang zu finden und glücklich zu sein?

Every foster child carries within them the seeds of greatness, but traditional approaches to teaching responsibility often miss the mark. If you've ever wondered why typical parenting methods don't work with children who've experienced trauma, you're not alone. The truth is that foster children need something different—something that honors their journey while building their future. The Character Code reveals a revolutionary approach that has transformed countless lives.

Every child with a trauma history deserves a parent who understands that their challenging behaviors are desperate communications, not defiance. If you've mastered the foundational skills from Volume One but still find yourself struggling with aggression, defiance, daily living battles, and complex trauma responses, this book holds the missing pieces to your family's healing puzzle.

Author and Instagram star Heather Avis has made it her mission to introduce the world to the unique gifts and real-life challenges of those who have been pushed to the edges of society. Mama to three adopted kids - two with Down Syndrome - Heather encourages us all to take a breath, whisper a prayer, laugh a little, and make room for the wildflowers.

The megatalented creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away with Murder chronicles how saying yes for one year changed her life - and how it can change yours, too.

What if living a life true to yourself meant unraveling everything you were taught to believe? In this powerful continuation of her story, Emma Stevens returns to The Gathering Place and shares the hard-earned wisdom that comes from confronting loss, identity, and truth. As an adult adoptee raised to feel grateful rather than grieve, Emma was shaped by silence, expectation, and trauma. But deep within, resilient parts of her fought to be heard. Through raw and reflective storytelling, she explores what it takes to stop merely surviving and start living intentionally.

Have you ever wondered what really goes on in the hearts and minds of foster children? How do they cope with the trauma of separation, the uncertainty of their future, and the struggle to find their place in the world? The Invisible Scars pulls back the curtain on these often-overlooked aspects of the foster care experience, offering listeners a unique understanding of the emotional journey of foster youth.

When Daniel arrives at Casey and Mike's door he is an out-of-control teenager, whose history of abandonment and abuse has left him angry at the world. But no matter how big the challenge, Casey is determined to break the cycle and prove to Daniel that not all adults will let him down.

Foster care could be very different in your community. If you were to find and effectively collaborate with the right people, your county could go from “not enough” to “more than enough.” This audiobook is narrated by author Jason Weber, and will help you lay the essential groundwork to see that happen.

Un libro cercano y real que transmite todo el proceso que se recorre tanto de parte de los padres como de los hijos y las instituciones que participan en esta vivencia. Nadie mejor que Olvido Macías como autora quien, además de sus hijos naturales, es madre adoptante. Su testimonio se une al...

In the complex world of foster care, success depends not just on your ability to care for children but on your capacity to navigate an intricate web of professionals, agencies, and bureaucracies. Co-parenting with the System provides an essential roadmap for both new and experienced foster parents, offering practical strategies for building effective partnerships with the numerous professionals involved in your foster child's life.

Three-year-old Lainie kicks and screams as she tightly grips the leg of her older sister, pleading to stay with her family as she’s surrendered to the foster care system. Lainie, a year later, is reunited with her family, only to live another five tumultuous years hungry, neglected, and desperate for love and attention. Houseless again, Lainie’s mother breaks her promise of forever when she gives her away again, this time, in a motel parking lot, never to live with her or her family again.

In 1992, Linda and David long to have a child. They decide to adopt a baby and learn they can only do so under an open arrangement where the biological parents and the adoptive family know each other's identities, and choose to remain in contact after the adoption is finalized ... possibly for life! There are no ready answers to their many questions: What happens in the first year? Twenty years later? What does visitation between birth and adoptive families look like? Will it be awkward to raise a child with the birth parents in the picture?

After a notorious lawyer, at the behest of a famed composer, meticulously conceals a child's origins, his adoptive mother spares no effort to bury the truth. Pulling strings and enlisting influential allies—including a television icon—she constructs an elaborate facade to ensure he never uncovers his past.

A searching, eloquent memoir about the joys and hardships of open adoption. God and Jetfire is a mother's account of her decision to surrender her son in an open adoption and of their relationship over the twelve years that follow. Facing an unplanned pregnancy at twenty-two, Amy Seek and her ex-boyfriend begin an exhaustive search for a family to raise their child. They sift through hundreds of "Dear Birth Mother" letters, craft an extensive questionnaire, and interview numerous potential couples.

I was four months old when I was adopted, taken from an orphanage and placed into what was supposed to be a loving family. But love had conditions. Survival had rules. And silence was the price of staying. By sixteen, I had already learned how to disappear—into alcohol, into drugs, into the arms of men who didn’t care if I made it out alive. By eighteen, I was a mother, barely keeping my head above water, raising a child while still a child myself. When I got pregnant again at twenty-one, I knew one thing for sure: I wasn’t going to drag another innocent life into my chaos.